Reform & Change
Go West!
Land & More Land!
Inventions
Native Americans
100

Who organized the first woman's rights convention (Seneca Falls Convention) ? 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

100

What was happening to Eastern cities by the 1800s, in terms of population? 

They became overcrowded. 

100

What was a territory won after the Mexican-American War? 


California 


100

 How did telegraph change communication?

Americans could send messages in minutes.  

100

Who was Lewis and Clark’s Guide?

Sacagawea

200

Who was a famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman 

200

What was discovered in California in 1848/49





California Gold Rush 



200

Which country did the United States purchase the Oregon territory from? 

England 


200

How did locomotive trains and steamboats affect trade?

They connected West and East  

200

What was the 5,000 mile forced march from Georgia to Oklahoma; where over 4,000 Cherokees died due to disease, starvation; and cold?   

The Trail of Tears

300

Who was a former teacher who was arrested for voting illegally as a woman.  

Susan B. Anthony 

300

What was the belief that God told Americans to go west?


 

Manifest Destiny 

300

What territory did the Corps of Discovery (Lewis & Clark) discover? 


Louisiana Territory

300

Who invented the steamboat? 

Robert Fulton 

300

How did western expansion affect Native Americans? 

Western expansion caused Native Americans to leave their land due to ever-increasing white settlement. 

400

How did Frederick Douglass help abolition?

He gave public speeches/published his life story/wrote a anti-slavery newspaper: The North Star.


400

The artist Thomas Gast argued in his 1872 painting: "American Progress", Americans should do what?


GO WEST!

400

What territory rebelled against Mexico in 1835 and became an independent country for ten years before joining the U.S.


TEXAS


DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS

400

What was the impact of the  Mechanical Reaper?

1.  It reduced the need for slavery in the North and Midwest.  

2. It made farming more efficient (faster and productive).  

400

Where did thousands of Native Americans across the country go after the government forced them off their land?

These places often tried to stop Native Americans from practicing their religion; celebrating their holidays; speaking their language, etc.    

Reservations 

500

Why did suffragists quote the Declaration of Independence often in speeches? 

To show equality was a key value.  

500

Why was the West attractive to enslaved African Americans? 


There was no slavery/"Fresh Start".

500

What country sold Florida for $5 million to the United States. 

Florida 

500

How did the cotton gin impact slavery?

It made cotton cheap to make so slavery increased.

500

What was the outcome of the court case, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?

Hint: Could the state take the Cherokee's land legally? 

The Court ruled:

1. the Cherokee were "dependents" of the U.S. Gov't. 

2. Georgia could NOT take the land. (President Andrew Jackson disobeyed the court's decision). 


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